1. 40-Love BY: ROGER MCGOUGH
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2. Roger McGough
Born: November 9, 1937 in Lither Land, north Liverpool. Education: St Mary's College and the University of Hull. Most popular titles: Summer with Monika, Blazing Fruit and Defying Gravity, all published by Penguin, and for children An Imaginary Menagerie, Pillow Talk and Bad, Bad Cats. He is an international ambassador for poetry and in 1997 was awarded an OBE, and in 2004 he was awarded a CBE. His most recent books include 'All the Best' and 'Slapstick' (due in August) and for adults, 'Collected Poems' and 'Selected Poems.‘ He now presents the BBC Radio 4 programme Poetry Please and records voice-overs for commercials as well as performing his own poetry

3. 40-LOVE 40- Love middle aged couple playing ten- nis when the
game ends
and they
go home
the net
will still
be be –
tween them

4. Subject Matter
The poem is about a relationship that the middle age couple has which is like a tennis match. There will always boundaries even after the match ended. The layout of the poem is also similar to a tennis match.

5. Structure
The two words “tennis” and “between” are separated by hyphens to be symmetric in structure. The words in the poem are set in two sequences, like two sides of the couple. The middle blank or empty is like a net to separate the two. There are only two words in each line to symbolize the bouts of the ball. The title of 40-love, the top of the net, is right on the top of the poem, signifying the scoreboard. This poem looks like a tennis court with a net being used to separate the words. It is like a tennis game.

6. Themes
The boundaries between people that will always be there even after what they had gone through together.

7. Figurative Language
Irony "love" between a married couple usually thought as actual love. However, in tennis, "love" is a score of "0". Metaphor 40 Love is a score in tennis - it means that one person (40) achieved all the points and the other person (love) had none.

8. Figurative Language
Metaphor The words between and tennis are separated by hyphens - invisible net in the world of the man and the woman Imagery The words are boring to read which suggest that the life of the couple is dull. The figure of 40 stands for the age of middle-aged people. And 40-Love is a scoring term in tennis. Tennis scoring is love, 15, 30 and 45 in sequence. Love here means zero. Three goals scores 40. No goals, no score. Thus, the title is of pun with two meanings. One refers to be 40-year-old love and the other is 3:0. Whether 40-year-old love is vain or not depends on attitudes of the two parties.

9. A man and a women in an intimate relationship
Persona
A man and a women in an intimate relationship

10. Tone
The tone of the whole poem is calm,
without any fluctuating.